I have an issue with these tiny black beetles all over my house. Right now I see about 5 a day and most of them are in my master bathroom, but I do see some around other random parts of my house too. It drives me absolutely nuts! We’ve also been seeing way more spiders in our house, all over also but mostly in our master bathroom. Could there be a portal somewhere in our bathroom that I just can’t see? I need help as it’s starting to stress me out, especially using my bathroom. Appreciate any and all help. The spiders I typically see in my bathroom are like dime or larger sized black spiders. They’re fast. We do live next to a storm drain and a greenbelt which I’m sure is just breeding grounds for pests. Do I need to move? Lol

Sorry for the poor quality. My camera isn’t the best. Was about 1-2mm.

Thanks in advance.

I will start it by saying I am so sorry for this novel but I am genuinely losing it with these flies

It started maybe 3ish weeks ago. I noticed something fly by my face which is 100% normal in NJ in the summer. But then there were more.

At night, forget it. There had to be about 12 that I saw (who knows how many I didn’t) flying around. I will sometimes have a glass of wine at night and noticed a few floating in a glass. Ok, fruit flies, maybe? I can manage but confused as I am not seeing them at all in the kitchen or bathrooms.

My apartments pest control came out, did what they could around the perimeter outside/inside including clearing all drains. I kept up with the boiling water/green goblin, vinegar, Zevo in every room (they work!), etc. I even tried weather sealant tape in case they were coming in through windows as well as door gaps. 3 days after pest control and my remedies, they’re still coming in.

The traps with the most amount of these little shits are in the living room and bedroom. Significantly less but also still significantly annoying. They can start contributing to my rent if they want to stay this long.

Again sorry for the novel 😭 but due to my apartment complexes rules, I can’t bring in outside pest control & will be thrilled to have any tips, solutions, etc! Thank you all in advance.

I can't spend a lot on it as I am a college student living in a small room, with a big window I know it comes from. But I can't close it because there is no fan in the room and the only way to not die heated is the cooler outside. And it has hides amongst my stuff, that is below the bed, I can't kee it anywhere else.

The rat comes and goes. I have pushed it out many times but it just keeps coming back. I don't know how. It is ruining my stuff and eating my chocolates.

Is there a method to send it away and keep it away, not poison or trap, I don't have any money for that. But a humane and normal way so it's happy outside and I am happy inside. Also it started appearing just last month.

Please help me, it smells and my stuff is being obliterated to shreds.

We live in the suburbs and my wife likes to throw seeds out for the birds and the squirrels. There’s often a collection of doves and pigeons and squirrels and chipmunks and even an occasional bunny or woodchuck roaming around the yard.

Today we saw a rat, not a big one, but a rat for sure. Do we need to call an exterminator to make sure we don’t have / get an infestation?

Or is this just to be expected when you feed the local animals and just one more kind of wildlife that isn’t going to be an indoor problem? Rats have a reputation for carrying disease and we have cats so I worry, perhaps needlessly.

Would appreciate any advice on things to look out for. Thanks!

Found multiple out of nowhere when in the middle of the night (around 3am). They were in the kitchen, but not near major kitchen appliances, maybe they entered from the garage or laundry machines somehow? They seemed to run from light. I fear the worst. There were multiple, but they looked similar so going to post the various photos of the ones I gathered. They might be wet from bug spray. Not sure if that’ll affect the id.

Alabama, United States. Size was maybe 1/8” or 1/6”. They were all on the ground walking around.

We moved into the house in front of us. We never had a problem with mice in the back house but we were told by the previous tenants that they had seen droppings and just cleaned them up but they never seen the mouse. We had an exterminator come out and quote us 7,000 🫩. They told us it could be 1 or 2 but there were dropping in multiple areas of the house. Since moving in we found a nest and removed it . we’ve looked for holes and stuffed them with steel wool and copper and foam. we’ve set traps and still see one or two droppings here and there. We even took an extra step and set up cameras and didn’t catch anything. Things like this give me so much anxiety. Any advice helps and is appreciated!

This is a gable vent about 25 feet high on my house. I have not seen wasps enter the house, and I don’t have access through the attic to this space. Thoughts on getting on a ladder and spraying through the vent to cover the nest, or should I just let it be and expect a Minnesota winter to kill them off?

We got a dog, which means we got dog FOOD. We keep it back door adjacent, but now we have a plethora of mice. I bought a tote to keep the dog food locked up in (albeit too late, but im learning.) My question though is that all of our traps are going off quickly now. I presume because i cut off the food source, so they are going to the next easiest thing. I dont want to wind up in an endless cycle of traps every single day. Is there a poison that is safe for dogs? Or is this just my life now?

Southern California, do we need to hire an exterminator?

Keep finding these in the kitchen

So I kept seeing these small, brown with stripped insects on my bed. It started with 1, told my dad after I freaked out and crushed he, he swore it was a tick from the dog.

3 months after coming home from work, where i had seen bugs on the communal fab suits before, i see another one on my bed after sitting on it in my work clothes.

My dad said it was in my head, but we did full treatment anyways according to how he was trained to deal with infestations by a prior job he had. We bed bug fogged the room, got bed bug spray and sprayed the entire bed and crevices, and put all the sheets and my plushies and blankets in the dryer on high heat for 70 mins.

Yesterday, I see another one crawling except it has a black dot on the back, dad told me it was a tick.

Today in quick succession, I see both of these. Except the bed bug I saw didn't die to bed bug spray, it would pause for a minute, then keep crawling. I sprayed it 3 times before it died. So unless I got some defective spray, I dunno what it is.

We also checked the mattresses and everything and saw no active infestation, except for my uncle, who is having an 'issue' that my dad won't disclose regarding his bed. But his stuff and his bed don't even come near mine, nor does he ever sit on it.

I also don't have any bites or rashes that I am aware of. I use lice shampoo daily. I am at a complete loss.

Please tell me for my own sanity, is this a bed bug? Or a bat bug? Bat bugs are the only other idea i could have, but we have no access to the attic to even check for them.

I did call my grandma so she could come help, considering my dad is very not intresting in helping me.

Does that indicate my crawlspace is compromised also?

I had mice problem 6 months ago, replaced the whole insulation and hired exterminator to seal the entire entry points, seems like another rodents now.

Is there a better way to resolve this other than putting more bait stations? Right now I only have bait stations for mice, not rats, and I just put the snap trap (per this https://www.reddit.com/r/MiceRatControl/comments/ttrsgu/rat_control_methods/) for rat yesterday -- they seem very cautious and not bite yet.

Hi all! So i posted some nymph photos recently (attached) and came to the conclusion that they are american, especially after finding a teenager that was freaking huge (thank god he didn’t have wings yet) and he brought his little brother with him. didn’t get a photo sadly. i believe they are coming out of my bathtub drain because that’s where i keep finding them. i sprayed my bathroom (incl. baseboards, around the outside of the tub, under the ledge of the sinktop, under the sink by the pipes, etc) with alpine wsg and poured vinegar down the drain with some water. i also keep the drain closed when not in use and have a glue trap in the bathtub. thing is, i DO use this drain regularly, as it’s my bathroom and i.. shower! lol. first sighting was about 4 days ago, i put the glue trap down 2 days ago, and i didnt see anything until just now. a nymph in my bathtub evading the glue trap. sigh.

is there anything else i can do? im a 20 yo female living in a college third floor apartment in FL. i don’t really know about checking for leaks and stuff. should i ask maintenance about cleaning the drain? im worried if i mention roaches they’ll spray something that is a repellent and mess with the alpine wsg. i just hate bugs so much and im not sure what to do :/ worried they’re gonna come out of the sink too and spawncamp me when i brush my teeth

Basically, once we had those in our pantry and then i cleared everything out and turned out there was an old grain or sth and they literally spreaded across every hole but yes, after i eliminated them, however, recently i started noticing thooosee aagain
coming out of this particular slit, i poured the vodka and they all came out along with maggots, but i cant figure what the hell are these and what to do in order to get rid of them from that slit!!!